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United States Senate (view source)
Revision as of 11:51, September 11, 2009
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*'''Independant Democrats''' : 2
*'''Independant Democrats''' : 2
*'''Unresolved''': 1
*'''Unresolved''': 1
== In fiction ==
The Senate has figured very prominently in American literature and especially [[motion picture|cinema]]. Arguably the two most famous motion pictures in which the Senate and/or certain fictitious members of it figure prominently are:
* ''[[Mr. Smith Goes to Washington]],'' in which an ingenuous [[Jefferson Smith|interim Senator]] comes to the Senate and rebels against the graft and chicanery that he discovers there. So accurate were the replicas of the Senate chambers, galleries, and cloakroom that Columbia Pictures Corporation built for the film that visitors to the Senate galleries have often remarked that their visit was like appearing in the movie.
* ''[[The Manchurian Candidate]],'' in which the wife of one member of the [[New York State]] Senate delegation hypnotically orders her son to kill the other member of that delegation, as part of a much larger plot to make her husband [[President of the United States]] "with powers that will make [[martial law]] seem like [[anarchy]]."
Less well remembered is the film ''[[The Devil and Daniel Webster]]'', in which Senator Daniel Webster of [[Massachusetts]] argues with [[Satan]] for a constituent's soul.
==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
===Official Senate histories===
===Official Senate histories===